Tyre, Lebanon

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July 3, 1268 I reached Tyre with the sole intent on gaining knowledge of the Phoenician ways and claiming their inventions. It turned out the city was home to the on of the most important cities to the Kingdom of Jerusalem and smelled a lot like ...

... drivers.... Next B was Beiteddine, a 19th Century palace with the most fabulous collection of recovered mosaics, rescued from all over Lebanon and hidden during the civil war. Breaking with tradition, our final tour was of Tyre in the far south, about ...

Tyre, or Sour, in the very south of Lebanon and like all other cities in Lebanon, has a long history dating far back into the BC's. What I found most interesting is that due to the Lebanese civil war and tensions between Hezbollah and Israel, Tyre's ...

... . Two of the important Crusader cities, Sidon and Tyre figured prominently on my list of places which I wanted to see in Lebanon.
Both cities were founded by the Phoenicians long before either you or I was born. The Phoenicians were great traders and ...